Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 27 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 131 32 60
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.16% 7.13% 12.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.99% 25.20% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 24 45
10th Percentile £412 £226 £196
25th Percentile £487 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £669 £541 £600
90th Percentile £688 £600 £633
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 468 127 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 39.86% 28.29% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 98 99
10th Percentile £366 £264 £210
25th Percentile £435 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +1.98% -8.29%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £628
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.60
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.50%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +8 128 £529 +11.37% 26
Doncaster - 1 - -
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.34%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.58%) Confluence
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.44%) AWS
2 66 (50.38%) GCP
3 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (15.27%) Entra ID
5 17 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (12.21%) GitHub
7 14 (10.69%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (7.63%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.34%) Serverless
11 6 (4.58%) OneDrive
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Storage
12 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (3.82%) PowerApps
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.29%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.29%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) SAN
2 7 (5.34%) Firewall
2 7 (5.34%) Network Security
3 4 (3.05%) DNS
3 4 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.29%) NAS
5 2 (1.53%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.53%) VSAN
6 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Power BI
2 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.34%) Big Data
3 7 (5.34%) Neo4j
4 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.29%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.76%) Parquet
8 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.56%) JIRA
3 18 (13.74%) GitLab
4 11 (8.40%) Git
5 7 (5.34%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.34%) REST Assured
5 7 (5.34%) Selenium
6 5 (3.82%) Gatling
6 5 (3.82%) JMeter
6 5 (3.82%) Postman
7 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.05%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.05%) NeoLoad
8 3 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (2.29%) Fiddler
9 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.53%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.76%) Gradle
10 1 (0.76%) Newman
10 1 (0.76%) TestNG
General
1 51 (38.93%) Social Skills
2 48 (36.64%) Finance
3 26 (19.85%) Banking
4 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Legal
7 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (19.08%) Lead
2 24 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (15.27%) Architect
4 7 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (5.34%) Developer
4 7 (5.34%) Security Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (4.58%) Consultant
5 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Lead DevOps
5 6 (4.58%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (3.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Test Architect
6 5 (3.82%) Test Automation Architect
6 5 (3.82%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.74%) OpenID
1 18 (13.74%) REST
2 14 (10.69%) LDAP
3 10 (7.63%) SailPoint
4 9 (6.87%) OAuth
5 8 (6.11%) Kafka
6 7 (5.34%) SAML
7 6 (4.58%) PySpark
8 5 (3.82%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.82%) Playwright
9 4 (3.05%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.05%) Middleware
9 4 (3.05%) React
9 4 (3.05%) RESTful
9 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.29%) FIDO
10 3 (2.29%) HTML
10 3 (2.29%) JSON
10 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.63%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.82%) FlexPod
6 5 (3.82%) Replication
7 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.29%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.29%) EMC VNX
8 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.53%) Blog
9 2 (1.53%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 9 (6.87%) Windows
3 8 (6.11%) Data ONTAP
4 7 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.58%) CoreOS
5 6 (4.58%) VMS
6 5 (3.82%) Unix
7 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.29%) AIX
9 1 (0.76%) Android
9 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (54.20%) DevOps
2 65 (49.62%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (20.61%) Observability
5 26 (19.85%) Agile
6 25 (19.08%) Containerisation
6 25 (19.08%) DevSecOps
6 25 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (18.32%) Test Automation
8 22 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (15.27%) Analytics
9 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (14.50%) AI
10 19 (14.50%) Migration
10 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.74%) Microservices
12 17 (12.98%) Cloud Security
12 17 (12.98%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (12.21%) Data Protection
14 15 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.30%) Python
2 33 (25.19%) Java
3 28 (21.37%) SQL
4 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.16%) Bash
6 7 (5.34%) Go
7 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.82%) Scala
9 4 (3.05%) C#
9 4 (3.05%) Cypher
9 4 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.29%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) CISSP
3 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.82%) OCP
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.05%) CCSP
4 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.05%) CISM
5 3 (2.29%) CCSK
5 3 (2.29%) NCDA
5 3 (2.29%) NCIE
5 3 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) RHCA
6 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) NIST
2 6 (4.58%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.05%) SLA
4 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.29%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (15.27%) Docker
2 14 (10.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.69%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.11%) vSphere
5 7 (5.34%) NFS
6 4 (3.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (2.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.29%) SRDF
7 3 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.76%) Ceph
8 1 (0.76%) KVM
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (32.06%) Kubernetes
2 35 (26.72%) Terraform
3 20 (15.27%) Ansible
4 12 (9.16%) Grafana
5 8 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.11%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.05%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.29%) Argo
7 3 (2.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (2.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.53%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.53%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.53%) SnapVault
8 2 (1.53%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.50%) Google
3 16 (12.21%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.92%) Databricks
5 10 (7.63%) Red Hat
5 10 (7.63%) VMware
6 8 (6.11%) NetApp
6 8 (6.11%) Oracle
6 8 (6.11%) Splunk
7 6 (4.58%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.05%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.29%) 3PAR
9 3 (2.29%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.29%) Aruba
9 3 (2.29%) Brocade
9 3 (2.29%) Cisco
9 3 (2.29%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.29%) Dell
9 3 (2.29%) EMC
9 3 (2.29%) Veeam